Biography
John D. Dunning (1916–1991) was an American film editor contracted to MGM Studios. He began his career as an apprentice editor while studying at the University of California, Los Angeles, and later assisted on Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda series during the Second World War.
Dunning’s feature credits include Battleground (1949), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing, Show Boat (1951), Julius Caesar (1953), Raintree County (1957) and Cimarron (1960). In 1959 he shared the Academy Award for Best Film Editing with Ralph E. Winters for William Wyler’s Ben-Hur.
He later worked in television as supervising film editor on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and other series before retiring from MGM in 1970.
